If you’ve inherited a piece of vacant land and you have no idea what to do with it, you’re in the exact spot most of our sellers were when they first called. The deed sits in a drawer, the property tax bill shows up every year, you don’t know what county the land is in without checking, and you’d just like the whole thing off your plate.
The good news is that this is a problem you can hand off. You don’t need to learn the real estate business. You don’t need to drive to the property. You don’t need to deal with title companies, attorneys, surveyors, or county clerks. That’s our job, and we’ve been doing it across Colorado, North Carolina, and South Carolina since 2019.
Here’s a plain look at what’s involved when you sell inherited land, what we handle, and the small piece that’s actually on you.
Why Selling Inherited Land Feels Complicated
A lot of inherited properties have something in the way. The deed is in a deceased parent or grandparent’s name and probate was never opened. Or probate got opened twenty years ago and never finished. Or there are three or four siblings on the deed now and one of them lives across the country and isn’t returning calls. The property might have back taxes owed. The title might have an old mortgage that was paid off forty years ago but never released. The mineral rights might have been sold off back in the 1950s. The legal access might have always been a handshake with the neighbor and never put on paper.
Any one of those can stop a regular real estate transaction cold. Most agents don’t know how to deal with them, and most retail buyers won’t touch a property that has them. So sellers in this position often just give up and pay the taxes for another decade.
That’s the situation we specifically buy in. Inherited land with title clouds, open probate, multiple heirs, back taxes, severed minerals, no recorded access. None of it scares us. We’ve closed hundreds of these over the years, and the reason we can offer a fast, clean cash sale is that we know how to clear all of it. We have the title companies, the attorneys, and the county relationships in place to make it happen.
If the Property Is Still in a Deceased Relative’s Name, Call Us Anyway
This is worth saying directly because it’s the situation that keeps the most people stuck. If you’re reading this and the deed to your inherited property is still in a parent or grandparent’s name, and you don’t know what probate means or where to start, you don’t need to figure it out before you call us. Most of the inherited-land sellers we work with are in exactly that spot. The property has been sitting in legal limbo for years because nobody wanted to deal with it, and the family just paid taxes and let it ride.
We help sellers navigate probate and heirship every week. We know the attorneys to call, the documents you’ll need, the affidavits that work in each state, and the order things have to happen. In some cases probate has to be opened or completed before we close. In other cases there are simpler paths (small estate proceedings, a transfer-on-death deed that was already filed, joint tenancy that auto-transferred at the time of death). We figure out which one applies to your situation and walk you through it.
You don’t need to have any of this sorted out before you call. It’s part of what we do.
What We Handle for You
When you sell inherited land directly to Front Range Land, the work on our side covers basically everything that has to happen between the first phone call and the wire hitting your bank account. We pull the title commitment and identify anything on the record that needs to be cleared. We coordinate with the title company through every step of the closing. We work with a real estate attorney if probate or a determination of heirship is needed (we know which attorneys to call, we know their typical fees, which usually run $1,500 to $5,000 depending on the state and complexity, and in many cases we factor those costs into the deal so you don’t have to come out of pocket).
We track down and coordinate with all the heirs who need to sign. Eight people on a deed spread across four states is a normal week for us. We pay any back property taxes at or before closing, out of the sale proceeds, so the slate is clean. We pay all closing costs (title insurance, recording fees, transfer taxes, the title company’s fees). We send a mobile notary to wherever you live, anywhere in the country, so you don’t have to drive anywhere or take time off work. And we wire your funds directly to your bank account at closing, usually that same day.
You don’t pay anything to sell.
What You Actually Do
The part that’s on you is short. Four steps, none of them taking more than about 20 minutes.
Take a phone call with us so we can ask a few questions about the property. Usually 15 to 20 minutes. You don’t need to dig up the deed, find the tax bill, or pull anything from the county. We do all of that ourselves online.
Verify your ID with the title company when they send you their welcome packet. This is a standard title-company step on every real estate transaction.
Sign the closing documents in front of a notary we send to you. The signing usually takes about 15 minutes and you can do it at your kitchen table.
Tell us how you’d like to receive your money. Wire transfer to your bank is fastest and most common, but we can cut a check if you’d rather.
That’s the whole list. The rest happens on our side.
What to Watch Out For With Other Buyers
There are a lot of land buyers out there and not all of them operate the way we do. A few things worth knowing if you’re also talking to anyone else.
Some buyers will tie up your property under contract for 60 or 90 days, then come back and lower the price right before closing. This is called retrading. A real cash buyer does their research before making an offer and sticks to that number.
Some buyers can’t actually pay cash and are just trying to flip your contract to someone else. If they can’t show proof of funds, that’s a flag. The deal can fall through if they can’t find an end buyer in time.
Some offers look high on paper but require you to pay closing costs, attorney fees, or back taxes out of your proceeds. Always ask for the net number you’ll actually walk away with at closing, in writing.
And a lot of buyers won’t touch inherited property if probate isn’t done. We will. Most of our deals look like this.
How to Get Started
We’ve been buying inherited and unwanted land in Colorado, North Carolina, and South Carolina since 2019. The most common thing we hear from sellers after closing is some version of “I wish I’d called you years ago.” If you’ve been sitting on a property because the situation felt too complicated to deal with, that’s exactly the kind of property we want to talk about.
Give us a call at (719) 224-0411 or fill out the form on our home page and we’ll come back with a free, no-obligation cash offer within a few days. We close in 30 to 45 days on average, faster on simple deals, longer when there’s probate or title work involved. We pay every cost. You sign a few documents at home and the funds wire to your account.